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Jay Gruden was throwing passes to NFL receivers before he could drive. As the son of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' running backs coach in the early 1980s, as well as a teenage quarterback of some local renown - better, most folks thought, than his older brother, Jon - the youngest Gruden got the job of tossing warmup passes to the Bucs' receivers and running backs before practices. He has still never faced a more pressure-packed situation.

"The first 10 passes I threw were about 20 yards over [the receivers'] heads - I was so nervous," Gruden recalled once. "But those are the best memories I have."

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